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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GREEN EYES--The male Valley carpenter bee is a green-eyed, golden insect nicknamed the "teddy bear" carpenter bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Just Wanna Be Your 'Teddy Bear'

January 26th, 2009
When you think of a teddy bear, you think of a huggable stuffed animal. Not so entomologists. When they think of a teddy bear, they think of the male Valley carpenter bee. It's a green-eyed, fluffy golden insect that's nicknamed "teddy bear." You can hug it, too.
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RED DRAGONFLY--UC Davis entomologist Michael Parrella submitted this photograph in the Insect Salon juried photography show at the Entomological Society of America's 56th annual meeting, held last November in Reno. Photographers from around the world entered the competition. Parrella is an associate dean of agricultural sciences at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor of entomology and environmental horticulture at UC Davis. (Photo by Michael Parrella)
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Art Show: A Fusion of Art and Science

January 23rd, 2009
If you like to combine art with science, here you go. In keeping with the theme, The Consilience of Art And Science," the Pence Gallery and the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program are sponsoring a juried exhibition, open to all artists and scientists.
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LADYBUG STAGES--These photos were taken Jan. 19 in Fairfield, Solano County, California. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Ladybugs Are Out

January 21st, 2009
Yes, they are. The ladybugs are out, at least in some parts of Northern California. We received an email last week from a professional wildlife photographer from Germany who wants to film hibernating ladybugs in February. He's on a magazine assignment.
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CABBAGE WHITE BUTTERFLY--This is a Pieris rapae similar to what UC Davis professor Art Shapiro found Jan. 20. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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He Did It!

January 20th, 2009
He did it. I knew he would Hardly anyone can beat University of California, Davis professor Arthur Shapiro in finding the first cabbage white butterfly of the year. For the past 38 years, he's been hosting a "Beer-for-Butterfly" contest.
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